It started with a coronavirus crisis. We thought people might need something to do in lieu of fun. And some people might need someone to yap at them as they go through this. We have a lot of cool friends. So we started a show. Then the crisis ended. But by then I was wearing dog shirts every day. And the the rest was the rest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Books and stories in the public domain read for you by a simple man just trying to make his way in the world... Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecrp/support
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The first ever audio conference for brand builders.
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(un)productive by daydreamers is a weekly chat where we pick the brains of creatives, entrepreneurs, thinkers and tinkerers, all who have approached life differently. Together, we’re redefining how we spend our “free” time in a world that’s hyper-focused on efficiency at the expense of well, everything else. We’ll dig into the habits, mindsets and experiences of some of the most creative minds in the world today so we can all spend a little less time scrolling - and a little more time, dreaming.
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Host Billy Draper interviews founders and leaders of consumer-facing businesses, from sneakers to ice cream and everything in between. Making the Brand gives a behind-the-scenes look at the untold stories from companies that go the extra mile to delight their customers and develop their brands. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Christian Education with John Hawthorne
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1:01:24Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome sociologist John Hawthorne to discuss his new book on how fear controls Christian universities and how to change that. Check out the book here: https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802884565/the-fearless-christian-university/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Eve Gaumond discuss the upcoming Canadian elections. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Jonathan Rauch discuss protest movements, religion in government, and justifications for violence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss different ways of reckoning with complicated history, from land acknowledgements to post-colonial governance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Catholic journalist Michael Sean Winters to discuss the legacy of Pope Francis and what comes next for the Catholic Church. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Federal Courts Fight Back with Ruth Marcus and Marty Lederman
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59:41Wherein Ben welcomes Ruth Marcus and Marty Lederman to discuss recent judicial responses to Trump administration malevolence and where the federal courts go from here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Content Industry with Mike Pesca
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1:03:26Wherein Ben welcomes Mike Pesca to talk about the industry of people who talk about things. They discuss celebrity podcasts, the audience for newsletters, and whether to make fun of your own advertisers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Eve Gaumond discuss Eve’s new venture into exploiting the working class. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Joel Woodward from the Collegium to discuss the return of the Gilded Age, complete with monopolies and robber barons. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Minna Ålander, an expert on European security issues, to discuss Putin's strategic approach to NATO in the Trump era. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Anastasiia Lapatina to discuss the current situation in Ukraine and Eastern Europe more generally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Anna Bower to discuss various Trump administration litigation issues, including violations of court orders and more clarity on who runs DOGE. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher attempt improv comedy and discuss the economic impacts of tariffs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss last weekend's protests, and the art they themselves have made to protest the Trump administration. They talk laser projections, YouTube videos, and cactus warfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Narcissists Among Us with Amy Brunell
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1:01:17Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Alicia Wanless welcome Professor Amy Brunell, a social psychologist, to tell us about narcissism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Information Animal with Alicia Wanless
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1:02:58Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Alicia Wanless to tell us about her new book, The Information Animal, a historical and contemporary survey of the human information consumption. Pre-order Alicia's book here: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-information-animal/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Alicia Wanless welcome Dr. Tony Volk, a developmental psychology researcher, to talk about the dynamics of bullying, on the playground and in the Oval Office. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Virginia Heffernan and Jonathan Rauch to talk about philosophy in the present moment and taking action one day at a time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben, Alicia Wanless, and Eve Gaumond discuss the craziest recent events in Canadian politics, including lies, plagiarism, and threats of secession. Anastasiia Lapatina joins in to discuss the last episodes of her podcast on US-Ukrainian relations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Professor Lucy Jackson to tell us all about the Greek chorus, from its theatrical role to its philosophical significance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Alicia Wanless discuss Trump administration influencers, puppets as graduation speakers, and maple syrup smuggling in the tariff era. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Mike Pesca to talk about podcasts, scandals, and the JFK assassination, and they read the newly released Houthi PC Small Group battle plans live on the show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss the Trump administration's leak of classified military information via group chat and welcome Anna Bower to tell us about her search for the administrator of DOGE. The as-yet-unnamed puppy was also there. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Eve Gaumond discuss the upcoming elections in Canada. Also, Ben has a new puppy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss Ben's new video, Holly's new podcast, and why big law firms are capitulating to Trump. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Frédéric Mérand, Canadian political scientist, to discuss Canada's potential integration with the EU. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss the destruction of US soft power mechanisms, including Voice of America and the US Institute of Peace. Holly gives an update on South Sudan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben puts the Trump administration on blast for destroying democracy outside of business hours, and Holly Berkley Fletcher and Alicia Wanless join in to discuss the Finnish language, American missionaries, the African middle class, and Canadian political culture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Wherein Ben takes questions from the audience on disinformation and Chuck Schumer's decision making. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben, once again broadcasting from an airport, asks Holly Berkley Fletcher to host the show for him. Holly talks Lindsey Graham, tuberculosis, and boarding schools, and welcomes John Hawkinson to discuss whether we might actually invade Canada. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Make-Up, Trains, and Humanitarian Crises
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1:00:31Wherein Ben celebrates his new career as a make-up influencer, Eve Gaumond tells us about her train journey across Canada, and Holly Berkley Fletcher reminds us that there's an ongoing humanitarian crisis in South Sudan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben welcomes John Hawkinson to discuss habeas corpus in deportation proceedings. They also touch on government shutdowns, Canadian politics, and trolley problems. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher and Alicia Wanless discuss the implementation of tariffs on Canadian goods, with occasional diversions to talk atheism, introversion, and Ukrainian refugees. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Intelligence, Rhetoric, and Protest
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1:01:43Wherein Ben, Holly Berkley Fletcher, and Eve Gaumond welcome reporter Shane Harris to discuss Trump's cut-off of military intelligence to Ukraine. We also talked about the State of the Union, the latest SCOTUS ruling, and why there haven't been large-scale street protests in the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Wherein Ben welcomes Minna Ålander, our resident European defense expert, and her colleague Eric Adamson to discuss how Trump's betrayal of Ukraine is playing in Europe and what comes next for US-European relations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher discuss random topics, including colonoscopies, projection logistics, and the cactus's new friend, the snowman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben, Eve Gaumond, and Holly Berkley Fletcher shoot the shit for an hour about whatever's on their minds: Dan Bongino, UFC, Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship, foreign election influence. You know, funny stuff. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Darcie Draudt, a political scientist specializing in the Korean Peninsula, to discuss what exactly 10,000 North Korean soldiers are doing in Ukraine, as well as the broader implications of their presence for the future of North Korea. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Rick Ehrenreich, a former State Department intelligence officer, to discuss the political situation in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Kate Sweeny, a psychology professor studying the effects of uncertainty, to explain to us how the current state of politics is pickling our brains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Max Johnston, producer of Lawfare's new podcast series on US-Ukrainian relations, to introduce the series, which launches later today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Dr. Beth Stuebing, a surgeon working at a hospital in Malawi, to talk about what the loss of USAID means on the ground and to discuss the broader political landscape of humanitarian aid. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Eve Gaumond welcome Jonathan Rauch to talk about the political role of the Supreme Court. Also, Anastasiia Lapatina and her estimable baby are in DC for the launch of her new podcast on US-Ukrainian relations. Register for the launch event here: https://connect.brookings.edu/register-to-watch-ukraine-fate Hosted on Acast. See acast.…
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Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Murray Brewster, a Canadian political reporter, to discuss Canada's prospects of resisting US annexation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Joel Linnainmäki, Minna Ålander, and Jonathan Rauch to discuss European defense now that the US has joined the authoritarian bloc. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Wherein Ben welcomes Minna Ålander, a European defense expert, and Fabian Hoffmann, a Norwegian expert on nuclear policy, to discuss European responses to Trump's foreign policy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Russian Influence and US Withdrawal
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1:02:15Wherein Ben welcomes Minna Ålander, Anastasiia Lapatina, and Dog Shirt TV newcomer Karen-Anna Eggen, a Norwegian expert on Russian influence operations, to talk about how Russia is exerting influence in Europe and the effects of Trumpist isolationism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Brian Rosenwald, an American political historian, to tell us about the history of talk radio and the Republican Party. Find Brian's book here: https://www.brianrosenwald.com/book Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The US and Belarus Swap Insurrectionists
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1:00:08Wherein Ben and Holly Berkley Fletcher welcome Katie Shmatsina, a Belarussian democracy activist, to talk about the situation in Belarus and the asylum process in the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Girl Security: DEI is Great, Actually
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1:02:06Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Lauren Buitta, founder of the nonprofit Girl Security, to talk about women in national security in the Trump era. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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